“I have a competition in me. I want no one else to succeed…I hate most people. There are times when I look at people and I see nothing worth liking.”
Out of a career of jaw dropping performances, Daniel Day Lewis’ turn as Daniel Plainview may take the cake as his finest work. A conniving and ambitious oil man, Plainview strives to make himself in the image of others in order to attain what he wants.
His “son”, H.W., serves…
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There Will Be Blood 2007
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Casino Royale 2006
-From the jump, the black and white messy bathroom kill, and the cold clinical assassination in Prague, you know this really was the start of a new, grittier era for the James Bond series
-I forgot Chris Cornell sang the opening song, “You Know My Name”
-That chase scene in Madagascar has my knees aching, and how they able to perform those stunts, jumping from crane to crane, and moving the camera so kinetically is amazing
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Oppenheimer 2023
So many thoughts coming to mind as I walk out of the theater and reflect. I feel almost as scattershot and awestruck as Oppenheimer must’ve felt dreaming of the quantum realm.
This is the closest Nolan has gotten to Oliver Stone territory in terms of its examination of the American Military-Industrial Complex. (So fitting seeing this in D.C.) And yet, it’s as subjective and gray as the most intimate of arthouse films.
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Mad Max: Fury Road 2015
One of those films that I thought was merely good when I first saw it. But now I’m even more impressed by its brilliance, not only in its technical achievements, but also in the fact that it took George Miller 20 plus years of hardship and setbacks to bring this to fruition. It only proves that some of the best stories really do find a way to be told, one way or another.
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